QUENTIN Tarantino is standing beneath a green exit sign in the darkened auditorium of the Glasgow Film Theatre. It hangs above his head like a warped halo and casts its jaded light down. The arrow points right but Tarantino is facing in the opposite direction, and in silhouetted profile is a shadowy Mr Punch. He's watching his new film, Death Proof, which stars Kurt Russell as an evil stuntman who gets his kicks ploughing into young women with a car customised to ensure he survives what should be fatal crashes.
The Turnor Lake Project is 100% owned by Purepoint and includes five claims with a total area of 9,705 hectares situated in the eastern plane of the Athabasca Basin. Depth to the unconformity is shallow at approximately 180 metres.TIM HERDThe sky provides an ever-shifting spectacle painted with all colors of the rainbow. In this richly illustrated book, meteorologist Tim Herd reveals the beauty and the science behind a wide variety of atmospheric phenomena, ranging from the daily pageantry of sunrises and sunsets to the rarely seen bursts of ball lightning. Many highlights in the Earth's skyscapes are produced by light scattering, refracting, or diffracting through the atmosphere and the particles it contains. Halos, arcs, and coronas about the moon and sun are generated by light scattering off a plethora of small particles--not just high-altitude ice crystals and water droplets but also volcanic ash and grains of pollen. Ghostly, shimmering auroras result when charged particles of the solar wind slam into Earth's atmosphere. Reading this book, armchair enthusiasts are taken on a clear and accessible tour of meteorological marvels. Abrams Books, 2007, 240 p,, b&w and color illus., hardcover, $19.95.What's interesting is that most of those queuing up around one- third of them, female are in their late teens and early 20s. They were children when Reservoir Dogs came out. Yet this middleaged man in the Wu-Tang Clan shirt seems to be important in their lives, and they, in his.Tarantino sniffs beneath his arms. His big moment is coming up. When Death Proof reaches its shattering climax, he strides to the front of the hall, basking in the sort of clapping, whooping and hollering usually reserved for a rock star. It's difficult to imagine any other film director provoking this reaction.I think he got dollars-7 million for Poseidon, so he wasn't exactly taking in a room-mate any time soon." A man in a Celtic top stands up and points to his pal in the next seat. Having watched the film's many shots of bare female feet, they have a point to raise. "This guy says you have a foot fetish, " he tells Tarantino. "Is he right?" "Well, I definitely have a fondness for that appendage, " the director replies. "Having said that, if you look closely at Death Proof you'll see ass and legs get pretty much equal billing." Tarantino is often called a genius filmmaker. He's certainly a genius at talking to large groups of people, and the two things are related he has an innate understanding of mass entertainment. There are 400 people here tonight and they love him. If he wanted to, he could easily tour the cities, acting out scenes from his films like Charles Dickens used to do with his novels. He finishes with a moment of crowdpleasing hubris, sweeping his bottle of water off the table and announcing: "Anything not shot by me is unsatisfactory by its very definition!" What is it about Quentin Tarantino and his films that stirs such passion? Earlier in the evening, I follow him to the Virgin Megastore on Buchanan Street. A line of around 300 people coils out of the store like a trail of gunpowder in a Roadrunner cartoon. Some have been queuing for three hours.One of the interesting things about Death Proof is that most of it is simply a bunch of women talking to each other. Great dialogue has always been a Tarantino hallmark, but this film marks a new conversational level; he just lets his characters chat about music, movies and each other's sex lives.ONE Devonshire Gardens, Glasgow's plushest hotel, earlier in the day. Tarantino is ready to talk. I'm shown into the room and he looms out of a leather armchair to shake hands. He's a big man, over six feet tall and beer barrel broad Bob Hope's face on Bob Mitchum's body.The untested Quetzal Zone is located north of Purepoint's previous drilling and was the subject of one airborne and four types of ground geophysical surveys during 2007. These surveys (electromagnetics, magnetics, IP resistivity and gravity) defined over seven kilometers of electromagnetic conductors within a complex structural setting that will be the focus of the 2008 winter drill program. Areas interpreted to be underlain by graphitic rocks and crosscutting structures will be targeted as they are ideally suited to host a typical Athabasca Basin unconformity uranium deposit.Purepoint Uranium Group Inc. is focused on the precision exploration of more than 42 defined target areas on its seven 100% owned projects in the Canadian Athabasca Basin, and its two Basin projects joint ventured with Cameco Corporation and AREVA Resources Canada Inc. Established in the Basin well before the resurgence in uranium, Purepoint is actively advancing this large portfolio of multiple drill targets in the world's richest uranium region.The hydrothermal fluids that contribute to the formation of uranium ore bodies also tend to create alteration halos in the rocks surrounding the deposits. These halos are marked by the addition or removal of minerals and results in changes to the composition of these rocks. Twenty five of the 34 holes drilled on the Turaco grid returned results from the Athabasca sandstone that are consistent with this type of alteration and assayed uranium concentrations as high as 300 times the generally accepted 'background' concentration standard for the Athabasca Basin.Omair Manzoor comes smiling out of the store.Previous Drill Results"Particularly in the last five years I've had a lot of female friends, " he explains. "Not only that, I've had different kinds of female friends in different posses.- IP resistivity survey results suggest extensive zones of sandstone alteration underlie the Quetzal Zone, and the detailed magnetic and gravity surveys indicate a high degree of structural complexity in that Zone. The association of these promising indicators (hydrothermal alteration and structural complexity) makes this untested Zone highly prospective;"Last year our drilling confirmed the existence of extensive uranium rich alteration halos on this property. In light of this early success, we refocused our efforts on the enhancement of our understanding of the area using more sophisticated and detailed geophysics" said Scott Frostad, Purepoint's Vice President Exploration. "We are excited to be returning drills to the project and have very high expectations for this year's program"."I don't wanna be in a situation where I'm talking bad about Grindhouse, " Tarantino tells the GFT, "because it is everything we wanted it to be. It worked like a whole big f***ing night at a drive- in in the 1970s. But we came to realise that people don't want that. They want dinner and a movie.Serin ConductorOutside the store, having gained an autograph and a moment with Tarantino, groups of friends high-five each other in triumph and delight.To date Purepoint has drilled 34 holes on the Turnor property, concentrating on the southern end of the Turaco grid. All assays have been received and almost all the drill holes have returned significant uranium assays (up to 0.15% U3O8) spatially associated with the Athabasca Group unconformity.They want Jon Heder and Will Ferrell. They want in and out in 90 minutes." Tarantino takes questions from the audience for over an hour. He gets asked if he thinks Death Proof will rehabilitate Kurt Russell as Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta. "Well, Kurt's career wasn't in bad shape.The property covers graphitic conductors that are associated with uranium showings on adjoining properties, namely Cameco's La Rocque occurrence (up to 33.9% U3O8 over 5.5 m) to the west and Areva's HLH-50 intercept (5.2% U3O8 over 0.38 m) located to the south. The project lies in close proximity to several uranium deposits including Midwest Lake, McClean Lake and Eagle Point.Highlights:
These black girls over here, these Korean girls over here, these richer society girls over here, and I'm just one of the group." He makes chopping motions to indicate the dividing lines between his girlfriends. Apparently, it isn't uncommon for a group of women to turn up at his door, desperate to watch American Idol. "I'm like one of the girls, " he says. "I have a lot of male friends, but I don't really have a posse of male friends. My male friendships are more one-on-one. These women have actually meant a lot to me over the last few years, and without me consciously trying, they all turned up in the screenplay. It's quite touching. This is my loveletter- slash-poison-pen letter to them." Tarantino says he has an instinctual trust of women, which is why he gets on so well by them.
Author: Peter Ross
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